Abstract

Single dish spectral line surveys of high mass star-forming regions provide spectra with a very high line density, and reveal the presence of many complex molecules. Besides the prototypical Orion BN/KL region, more and more regions get surveyed and we start to get a better idea of the chemical similarities and differences. Yet, single dish studies miss an important aspect of hot cores, which is revealed by higher resolution studies with interferometers: the cores are not chemically homogeneous, but a pronounced chemical substructure exists. As an example of such an interferometric study, we will present one particular set of objects, the UC HII W3(OH) and its neighboring hot core W3(H2O) (otherwise known as the Turner-Welch object), and discuss their chemical properties.

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